Analytic gradients for multiconfiguration pair-density functional theory with density fitting: Development and application to geometry optimization in the ground and excited states
- 21 February 2021
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in The Journal of Chemical Physics
- Vol. 154 (7), 074108
- https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0039258
Abstract
Density fitting reduces the computational cost of both energy and gradient calculations by avoiding the computation and manipulation of four-index electron repulsion integrals. With this algorithm, one can efficiently optimize the geometries of large systems with an accurate multireference treatment. Here, we present the derivation of multiconfiguration pair-density functional theory for energies and analytic gradients with density fitting. Six systems are studied, and the results are compared to those obtained with no approximation to the electron repulsion integrals and to the results obtained by complete active space second-order perturbation theory. With the new approach, there is an increase in the speed of computation with a negligible loss in accuracy. Smaller grid sizes have also been used to reduce the computational cost of multiconfiguration pair-density functional theory with little effect on the optimized geometries and gradient values.Funding Information
- National Science Foundation (CON-75851)
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research (FA9550-16-1-0134)
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